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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Picaresque Novel"”.
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The Picaresque Novel of Mexico
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Bomb
… is comprised of the first three chapters of a novel-in-progress, entitled Bomb, which is a work of literary fiction focused on two characters who have set out on a road race in a "cursed” automobile. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of the picaresque novel using modern …
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Reading Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus as a political treatise between Hobbes and Locke
… writer Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen’s picaresque novel Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668). This thesis argues that the novel contains the three-part political argument found in the contemporary political treatises of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) and John Locke’s Second …
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"The Medieval Background Of ""lazarillo De Tormes"" And The Picaresque"
… the origins of Lazarillo de Tormes, to see the novel in the context of its literary antecedents and not, as it has often been viewed, against the background of the 17th century picaresque novel which followed it. The true problem we perceive in arriving at an understanding of the novel's origins …
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A ceaseless becoming : narratives of adolescence across media
… adolescence narratives, prototypes for the picaresque novel, the school story, and the Bildungsroman are examined, and each are shown to contain narrative conventions that survive in recent works. A contemporary case study looks at the trilogy of female coming of age films by Sofia Coppola …
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Revising Rhetorical Theory in "My Bondage and My Freedom": Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness
… confession, the travel narrative, and the picaresque novel. He borrows from these forms to display his literary dexterity but also to enact a sort of rhetorical theory. His descriptions, sequence of events, and the way in which he orchestrates his text enact a rhetorical framework for …